Improvement in stock-cars



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Y Improvement'in Stock Cars.` A No. |22,120. `Patented npc.2e.1a71.`

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U NITED STATES PATENT OFF-ICE.

THOMA E. KNAUSS, OF ZALESKI, OHIO.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,120, dated December 26, 1871.

-in the cars during transportation.

In Ythe accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a view, in section, of part of a car 5 also of the folding trough, with'the provisions for adjusting it for use and for its elevation to the roof of the car when carrying other freight than cattle. Fig. 2 is an enlarged View ofthe end of the open trough with its adjusting and folding devices attached thereto. Fig. 3 is the same when closed. Fig. 4 is a flat view of part of the closed or folded trough, and Fig. 5 is one of the hand-wheels on the ends of the hoisting-shafts with the ratch and catch (not shown in Fig. l) for retaining' the trough in its required position when down and in use, or when folded and drawn up to the roof.

A is the trough, its Whole length being nearly that of the inside of the freight-car-ordinarily between twenty and thirty feet. The two sides are of wood, a a, connected at an edge of each piece by the metallic joints b, with a strip of liexible water-tight material attached either inside or outside, as shown at c, covering the joint at the bottom the whole length of the trough. Each end d is alike formed of suitable iiexible water-tight material, attached to the sides so as to allow them to come together when folding and elevating is required,- and to open to the necessary angle when required for use. A projection inward is put upon the upper edge of the front side as a preventive to waste of feed and the spilling of water; this strip is shown by e. On or below the beams of the roof of the car, and supported thereby, I place two shafts, ff, extending from end to end of the car.. On one end of each shaft is a hand-wheel, g, with a ratchiwheel, h, shown in Fig. ,4,Q,(not shown in Fig. l.) For eachratch .a suitable pawl is attached to the car. It is immaterial whether the shafts extend through the end of the lcar and have the wheels outside, or that the wheels are placed inside and project through the roof, as shown in Fig. l. Chains or ropes j are, at one end, connected with the shafts f and at the other with the trough. The front chains or ropes are axed to the lowerfront edge of the trough,

turning the front side when drawn upward by j winding the chain on the shaft parallel to the roof. the upper edge ofthe back side of the trough. rlhe two shafts, operating independent of each other, admit adjustment of level of the two upper edges of the trough, as circumstances may require. At each end of the car is a guide-rod, k, on which freely slides the swivel eye-bolt l, connectedto and turning freely in the socket m that is fastened upon the upper corners of the back of the trough, by which `device the trough is at liberty to lie in any desired position. What I claim, and desire to secure, is Y v1. The iiexible ends d and flexible bottom piece c, swivel eye-bolt Z and socket m, combined in the folding feed-trough A, substantially as shown.

2. The hand-wheels g, shafts j', and chains or cords j, in combination with the trough A, for the purpose specified.

Y THOS. KNAUSS.

Attest W. M. GOODING, EDWARD GoLLvnR.

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